Don't Get Me wrong, Girls are great. But they sure don't make it easy do they?
"...and she's beautiful too. You should see her eyes. They are the most magical deep blue you have ever seen. I could look into her eyes forever and never get tired."
"Yes Collin we get it. Brooke is the most amazing person to grace this planet. You've made your point. Could you please shut up now?!" Paul growled.
"You're just jealous!" Collin said back. Paul's eyes almost bugged out of his head.
"Jealous?! Are you kidding me?!" I groaned and stuffed my head under a pillow. Kill me now.
"You wish you were with a girl as wonderful as Brooke!" Paul let out a snort.
"Hah! You just made me think of another reason I'm not jealous of you. Rachel and me are together. But last time I checked Brooke hated your guts." There was a momentary silence before Sam spoke.
"Good job Paul."
"What? What? I didn't do anything!" There was a silence in which I assumed Sam was pointing at Collin.
"It isn't my fault he's so sensitive!"
"Hey don't worry Collin. Paul never knows what he's talking about."
"Shut up Jared."
"Personally I think I'm the one you should all be jealous of. I mean your imprint hates you, yours was a creepy stalker, you have to deal with Leah and you get to have Jake, who loves you so much as a brother-in-law someday!"
"Go to hell Quil." Four voices chorused. Ugh why was I here? I should have stayed at school. The entire time I've been here all I've heard is how marvellous Brooke is.
And to make matters worse it was like an all imprinter meeting and I was the only one without an imprint. Please somebody shoot me!
I have no idea why Sam had to invite every single person who had imprinted. I felt like I was going to be sick listening to their argument about who had the better imprint.
"Alright that's enough you guys." Emily's soft voice floated through the air. Thank you Emily! If I would've had to listen to one more second of that I probably would have stabbed someone.
"And don't worry Collin. You're an amazing guy-'' Paul interrupted her with a snort. How did I know it was Paul with my head under a pillow? Because Paul snorts like a horse.
"Apologise right now Paul."
"What?"
"You heard me. Apologise to Collin for snorting, teasing him and bringing him down." I could imagine Paul's face perfectly. His mouth would be opening and closing like a fish and his eyes would be the size of plates. Then the eye twitch would start. The anger and disbelief would begin to show on his face and he would look like he was about to refuse. But no one refuse's a direct order from Emily.
"Sorry Collin." Paul forced it out and it sounded like it physically pained him to say it. Someone snickered in the background and Emily quickly gave them a telling off.
"As I was saying Collin, you have nothing to worry about." Emily continued to give him encouragement and my head felt like it was about to implode.
"Yo Brady, what are you doing man?" I let out a muffled grunt.
"Right because that makes complete sense. I'm glad we cleared that up." I let out another grunt.
"Wow that was so descriptive. I feel like I know you on a whole new level." Before I could let out another grunt Sam put a stop to it.
"That's enough." Suddenly Sam had an epiphany.
"Brady, you're in Brooke's grade right?" It took all my self restraint not say no duh and look at him like he was brain dead.
"Yes." I said removing my head from under the pillow.
"Well then you can help warm Brooke up to Collin. Become friends with her and try and get her to talk to Collin so that he can explain." I wanted to shout 'But I don't want to!' but I decided against being incredibly whiny.
I nodded feeling incredibly annoyed. I didn't want her to like Collin. I wanted her to like me! Woah wait a second. Say what? Where on God's good earth did that come from? I don't like Brooke. Right? Oh please no! I can't can't can't like Brooke! This is like illegal or something!
What THE hell. Why me? Honestly is there someone up there messing with me? What have I done to offend you? My life is officially over. I LIKE my best friend's IMPRINT. What is this, some sort of after school special?
I think I'm going to cry. Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap. What am I going to do? I can't tell anyone! They would burn me at the stake or something! This is like the ultimate don't. The most horrifying terrible things I could ever do. I can't fall for someone else's soul mate! Especially not MY BEST FRIEND'S SOUL MATE!
Just kill me now. Just get it over with. I mean I'm a terrible actor. It isn't like I'll be able to act like I don't like her when in reality I actually do! And man oh man the mind reading! The flipping thought sharing! I HATE being a werewolf! HATE it with a passion! It should die right now! Who cares if the vampires eat us all? Not me!
Okay I'm beginning to sound mentally unsound. Just breathe Brady. This will work out. It'll all work out. It better fricken work out! Breathe. Alright I'm calm now. Or somewhat calm at least.
Today is the day I'm going to befriend Brooke so that I can get her to realise Collin is magnificent and then they can get married and have a bunch of little Collin-Brookes. Wow that's depressing. Okay Brady you can do this!
There she is. Move. Go! Why aren't you moving?! Run you fool!"
"Erm hey Brooke." I said nervously. It felt like my entire stomach was filled with some sort of angry insects. She stopped walking and seemed to freeze. Then she turned around too fast and tripped over her own feet. She spun around, her hands in the air before her legs gave out and she let out a squeak and hit the floor her books hitting the ground with a dull thud next to her.
I stared for a few seconds before scrambling to pick up her books.
"Here." I said handing her her stuff.
"Thanks." She answered quietly staring at the floor. There was an awkward silence before I started talking.
"I'm Brady." I said dumbly.
"I know." Right of course she did. The silence resumed. Well this wasn't weird at all.
"Ah what class do you have?"
"English."
"Hey me too! I'll walk with you." She gave a small nod with her eyes still glued to the floor. The whole walk to class was quiet and uncomfortable. I didn't know what to say. And apparently she didn't want to be chatty. We sat down and only spoke when I realised that I didn't have a pencil and I had to ask her for one. Well actually I spoke and she just handed me a pencil. So far not so good.
At the end of the day I hadn't made any more progress. Collin eagerly started asking how it went and I had to tell him that it went abysmally.
For the next week it went exactly the same. We sat in silence except for the occasional strained conversation. She never once looked at me and she always spoke quietly and extremely quickly. She never asked questions just answered in the littlest amount of words possible. She stuttered occasionally too. Then a miracle happened. The day was over. I was waiting for Collin in the school yard when she came up to me. I smiled at her but soon realised that her facial expressions were less than friendly. Of course it was kinda ruined by her stumbling over a rock.
She regained her balance and marched over.
"Brady why do you keep talking to me?" I was momentarily distracted by her face. Her eyes were a dark ocean blue and I really wanted to stare at them. She had a light dusting of freckles on her nose and cheeks which were quite cute and her cheeks were naturally rosy. She was make-up free and I was glad. It let me really look at her face.
"Brady are you even listening to me?"
"What? Oh yes yes of course!" Her beautiful eyes narrowed.
"I keep talking to you because I want to be your friend." She didn't seem to believe me.
"Why? Why now all of a sudden? First Collin stops harassing me and now you want to be my friend? What's going on?"
"Nothing! Nothing is going on!" I said quickly. She still didn't look convinced.
"Collin's really sorry you know." I was hoping this would soften her up. I couldn't have been more wrong.
"Oh really." She said icily. I nodded.
"Well if he's sorry why doesn't he come and apologise to me? Or does he think that you telling me he's sorry is enough?" Oh man. What had I done? She was beginning to tap her foot and I knew that wasn't a good thing.
"Err well you see the thing is that well..."
"Yes?"
"Um... Collin wanted me to talk to you first to warm you up to him so that he could talk to you without you freaking out!" I shouted like a moron. She exploded.
"So you're just trying to get on my good side so that cowardly little Collin can come and talk to me without being afraid?! Well you can tell him that if he wants to talk to me he can do it himself! Though I would prefer if both of you never came near me again! Ever since I started here both of you have never done one nice thing for me so I highly doubt that's about to change!"
"Wait a second what did I ever do?"
""What did you do? Oh I don't know. Hmm how about just sitting back and watching as your best friend made my life miserable! You never once tried to stop him! You never once tried to defend me or tell your stupid butt head friend to leave me alone! No! Instead you just sat back and let it happen! You're just as bad as Collin! So you tell Collin that I hate him and that I never want to see his ugly face anywhere near me! And you can leave me alone too!" And with that Brooke turned on her heel and marched over to where Autumn stood glaring daggers at me.
